Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.
There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.
When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.
Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?
Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.
I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.
I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.
Jeph Loeb has been great to work with, and he's been really supportive of some really bizarre ideas I've had.
Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.
Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.
A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane
Is it him?” Dad asked. “Did he get you into trouble?” “Not me,” Shane said. “I’ve just got that kind of face.
If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.
There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking.
I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.
Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.
You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style
When you do not treat yourself the way you want others to treat you, you can never change the way things are.
See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.
Don't define yourself by your body .. it's the infinite being that's connected to everything in the universe.
Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.
Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.
If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.
No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.
Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time".
What the world needs most is openness: Open hearts, open doors, open eyes, open minds, open ears, open souls.
More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.
ATLANTA NIGHTS not only changed my life, it changed my mind. An astonishing read, worth it at half the price.
The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.